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Civilization's oldest software, coded in thread and stored on bodies for forty thousand years.
means A textile is any cloth or fabric made by weaving, knitting, felting, or otherwise binding fibers and threads together.
from Straight from Latin textilis, "woven," from texere, "to weave." That same root spins out a whole family: "text" (words woven together), "texture," "context," even "subtle" (sub-tela, "beneath the warp"). The Romans saw clearly what we forget — that a sentence and a shawl are made the same way, by crossing threads until something holds.
- binary ancestor
- Punch-card looms inspired the first computers
- ancient flex
- Dyed flax fibers date back 34,000 years
- spider dreams
- Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight
- trade engine
- Cotton and silk built empires and sparked wars
- word root
- Comes from Latin texere, meaning to weave
jacquard loom — invented by joseph marie jacquard in 1804, revolutionized patterned fabric production
indian cotton industry — produces over 25 million bales annually, world's largest cotton producer
italian silk weaving — como region produces 50% of global silk textiles since 15th century
japanese indigo dyeing — aizome technique used in tokushima prefecture for centuries, still produces 90% of japan's indigo